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September112015

Kérlék

The Hungarian word for “please” is kérlék, which in turn is very similar to the Swedish word for “love”: kärlek.
Since many signs in Hungarian ends with a polite kérlék, a Swede in Hungary, gets the impression that the Hungarian people is very loving. And many are. I know. I saw many of them at Keteli last weekend.
But then there is Jobbik. And Orbán. And people like Petra Lazslo. And it’s really hard to connect them with the word kérlék at all.
So if kérlék is a typical Hungarian word, I think Jobbik and Orban probably are quite unhungarian.